"I want to do it on my own terms from now on. If I want to tour two albums at once, I'm going to tour two albums at once. If I want to drop a third album while I'm on tour [in 2019], I'll do that too!"

Ariana also revealed she knows more about music production than singing, including the production of her own sessions in studio.

“I’ve politely walked out of sessions before,” she told Billboard.

“It has happened. I’m a small girl. People tend to underestimate that. And then I sit down and comp my own vocals and can produce my own session, and they’re like” ‘Oh, I didn’t know you could do that.’ I’m like, ‘Believe it or not, there are plenty of tiny women that can do this.’

“...My dream has always been to be -- obviously not a rapper, but, like, to put out music in the way that a rapper does. I feel like there are certain standards that pop women are held to that men aren't. We have to do the teaser before the single, then do the single, and wait to do the preorder, and radio has to impact before the video, and we have to do the discount on this day, and all this sh*t.

It’s just like, ‘Bruh, I just want to f**king talk to my fans and sing and write music and drop it the way these boys do. Why do they get to make records like that and I don’t?’ So I do and I did and I am, and I will continue to.”

“And if it doesn't work out the way ‘Thank U, Next’ did, that’s fine too!" she added, showing emotion.

"It is so exciting to see something be received well. That’s a beautiful thing. But it’s even more beautiful to be honest and just do something...To drop a record on a Saturday night because you feel like it, and because your heart’s going to explode if you don’t -- to take back your narrative.”

​“They’re unable to accept the fact that women are a million things, and not just two,” she continues, speaking to the music industry as a whole.

“You can be adorable and brilliant. You can be friendly and silly, and yet strong and indestructible. You can be professional and present and also sexual and fun."